I did the same thing with a bobble stitch scarf. I decided that if it took a lot of effort to find this kind of “design element” it was not worth loosing sleep over it. Don’t tell anyone and most people will never notice it. The mitten is beautiful.

OK, I did spot the error right away, but that doesn’t mean that anyone who isn’t a knitter will 😉

I do really like the pattern, but when I try to come up with a name, the first thing that pops into my head is “fish eyes”. However, that doesn’t make for a very complementary name for a mitten. Unless you call them “Fisken øye” mittens!

“Bullet glass” os my suggestion — reminds me of those Victorian bullet glass windows. Yes, call the two bullets saddled together a design element and make #2 just like this one! Lucy must be thinking that it’s just about peep time!

I did notice the error, but meh. I’m a big proponent of handknit things actually, occasionally, looking hand knit. Anyone who notices without prompting deserves a firm-but-gentle mitten thwap.

As for a name, I’d call them “Labyrinth,” because they make me think of the little clusters of moving eyes that grow on the walls of the labyrinth in the movie of the same name. Which I hadn’t seen in ages and ages (David Bowie, Jennifer Connolly… please tell me I’m not the only one who’s seen it!), and recently introduced my daughter to, so it’s toward the front of my mind.

I think you should call the pattern “Kitties and Arrows” because the little circles on the outside of the mittens look like cats and on the palm there’s little arrows. I don’t know. It’s a little dorky. Oh well. I think its still kind of cute.

They’re lovely, and I never would have spotted the error if you hadn’t told us to go look for it.

For some reason, these remind me of blowing soap bubbles on a cold winter’s day; the bubbles freeze, and then roll along the snow and stick to each other. So my suggestion is “Soap bubbles in winter mittens”

Yeah it took me a bit to find it, it’s not that noticeable. I probably wouldn’t have seen it. The pattern reminds me of that game, connect four? I think that’s what it was called. Where you had to get four of your chips in a row, when you drop them down into the holder thing. 🙂

Dangit! Danielle beat me to it! I *immediately* thought, “googly eyes” – even before I saw that you had a name-the-pattern contest. The mistake rows look especially googly eyed. It’s a great pattern – lovely work. Is the mistake towards the end (knit from the cuff?) or at the beginning (knit from the fingertips?) I really like how you handled the thumb patterning. Wonderful! Thanks.

How about “Nonchalant Mittens”, as they remind me of my kitties when they make a blunder. They walk around afterwards as if nothing happened, acting nonchalant. “Why yes, I meant to fall of that shelf. I planned it that way.”

So, yes, you MEANT to skip ahead a few rows in the stitch pattern, didn’t you?

Darn, sometimes I get so excited that I forget to type in my email; and then my inspired essay is gone! And no amount of back-arrowing will bring it back.

Ah well, here are my usual silly ideas. I haven’t read all the comments (it’s bedtime), so I apologize if I’m redundant.

“Hiccup” (for the design element, of course)
“The Black Beast of Aaauugh” (for Monty Python and the Holy Grail fans, the animated monster with many eyes)
“On Target” (har, har, a bit tongue in cheek. Because I’m not going to say “Off Target”)
[Seems to me there was one more before the lost-in-cyberspace comment, but that’s life; ]

and last, because Claudia, Olive, and Lemon Ice all remind me of Italy,
“Occhi” (Eyes in Italian) (One could go fishily overboard and say Occhi dei Peschi, or Molti Occhi, many eyes, but I like the serene simplicity of “Occhi”.)

I’d never have spotted it if you hadn’t mentioned it, and that does appear to be just about where you stopped to take the photo of the unfnished mitten on your hand. Another day, another design element.

The pattern reminds me of tapioca, but I’m not suggesting that as a name!

They remind me a little of Venetian “millefiore” (million flowers?) glass. My mom had a small black and white paperweight she got in Italy that looked a little like your mittens with larger circles in the middle surrounded by a sea of tiny dots. Very cool no matter what you call them (and the palm was strobing on my computer so I didn’t look at it long enough to spot any errors!).

that is the type of error that would make Esher cry (isn’t that the artists’ name who did those paintings that you squint at and see something else??? – or am I dating myself !)
They are still lovely mitts – despite the lack of a certain little circlette.

They are lovely. How about Hot Cocoa and Snowballs? Better make it Mint Hot Cocoa and Snowballs, I think that colorway is a green, isn’t it? It reads pretty light on my monitor.
Good work. Hey to Lucy! (yeah, I live in the south–mittens are a decorative item to be hung on Christmas trees around here)
M

Odo! The shape shifter from Star Treck…it explains the “shift” in the design and all those lovely O’s.
Prometheus? the cyclops who gave humans fire and warmth (must say Odysseus was a real jerk to him)
I like Deb’s Caviar too. Nice and classy.

I did see the error, but I have a horrible gift that enables me to spot things like that with just a glance. Friends have been known to hide their work from me but when the counts are wrong and they can’t figure out why, I am the one they come to.

I like the name Subduction, also Hands Up and Dotty. I have no talent for figuring out names.

The mitten is lovely and the error doesn’t look so bad. I thought of hobnail glass when I saw them. I also agree with the person who suggested rosehip. They are lovely. Oh how you get us to be tempted to try fun knitting.

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